"Overrated Rubio?! Cuttino Mobley and Eddy Curry for Tracy McGrady?! Let me get this straight, you want to trade two guys with heart problems for a guy with NO HEART! Hilarious! Who are you picking up next, the scarecrow and the Tin Man! Hey, maybe the Wizard of Oz could help Nate Robinson grow 8 inches (to become a small guard)! And Darko?!?!?! You'd be better off digging up Drazen Petrovic and signing him to a 10- day contract! Good luck with that!"
The Curry talk continues with this insightful article in which Knicks president Donnie Walsh points to Curry's newly "firmed" arms as to a sign that he's hitting the weights hard and still has some trade value!
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2009/07/14/2009-07-14_eddy_curry_fails_to_impress_knicks_brass_forgets_his_sneakers_in_vegas.html
Whatever GM is actually brainless enough to trade for Curry needs to be taken down to the town square immediately and be stoned, beheaded, flogged, or whatever type of public humiliation/death is deemed necessary. I'm thinking, at minimum, Abu-Ghraib style! Curry is a waste of talent and skin. He is the bum of bums and is content with earning his paycheck, so he will not change. Ever! Even with firmer arms (firm arms, really?! That's what 42 year old mothers of 3 are in the gym to do!- I'm like LeBron's friend in the State Farm insurance commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSbhap4R-ho) when his car gets broken into and the other friend says that one of the thieves was wearing a jacket- "How does that help me?!"), you guys are stuck with him until the bloody end. Add this fact with the fact that the salary cap was decreased by 10mil, and I think that it all spells the end for your dreams of Bron & Bosh in 2010. In fact, i don't think you'll get either one. My money says that Lebron stays in Cleveland and has just been using the "I'll leave" element to force management to go after good players. What Bron doesn't realize, and what Trevor Ariza helped to make obvious (Ariza, another "Rocket" scientist- leaves the chance of a lifetime- being Kobe's Pippen- to run the show and get exposed as being a supporting cast type guy in hot, humid, lottery-bound Houston. Nice going there, buddy!), is that, as long as he doesn't commit to the Cavs, no other star that is worth anything (Shaq is worth a pack of Big League chew and an Alex Smith rookie card!) is going to want come to Cleveland to become the next Barron Davis (See Elton Brand). It's crazy to think that Bron actually doesn't realize that this is what is happening. It's as if our dear friend thinks that the world revolves around him or something and that big stars would jump to commit their lives to play with him for one year, on the off chance that he decides to stay! Nah, nothing in his recent past suggests that King James is the type of egomaniac that would actually believe this to be true, right?
Go Knicks!
RobbStarzz
Ok ok, don't make Tom out to be the prototypical Knicks fan. Especially after the last 8yrs we've been through! Yes you're right, Curry has about as much trade value as used toilet paper. We're not dumping him, not even when he becomes an expiring contract in 2011 (the year after the most overhyped free agent season EVER). That's what happens when the economy goes down the drain! I also believe that the summer of LeBron will also be the summer that most of the prized free agents stay with their current teams (again thank the economy). The only guys that will leave will be older guys without a home anymore (Ray Ray, Yao, T-Mac, Nash, and maybe even a Pierce and Amare). So the Knicks will have to settle for 1 or maybe even 2 of these of these guys. And of course they will have to overpay them. For the record, I do think Bosh leaves, but I see him in Miami with Wade. That's why Donnie Walsh needs to resign David Lee and maybe Lil Nate. The only way we're getting a decent free agent is if we show them that we have talent. The Knicks franchise isn't going to just pull marquee guys anymore just because they're in NY. That's evident by both Kidd and Hill turning us down this summer. I used to be under the same cloud of dillusion that LeBron was coming to save our Knicks, but alas, we are going to be just as disappointed as an 8yr old on Xmas who didn't get the bike they wanted. However, I do agree with Tom on one point, I think Darko will be a decent big man for us. He has skill and in our system he doesn't need to be physical. He can be more "European"!
ReplyDeleteAnd just a random thought...speaking of Darko, why hasn't Dumars lost his job yet? 6 coaches in 10 years, traded away B-B-B-B Billups, drafted Darko ahead of Melo, Wade, AND Bosh, ran off Larry Brown, Flip Saunders, Rick Carlisle, and fired Michael Curry because he wanted a coach with more head coaching experience and then hired a another with NONE! He now has to trade RIP because he signed an undersized Ben Gordon and he has to figure out how Prince and Villanueva are going to play (because Charlie isn't a power forward in the Eastern Conference). I should start up a fire Joe Dumars website and make t-shirts! And I'm not even a Pistons fan! I think Piston fans at the first home game in November should create the Malice at the Palace Part 2 and run up to his box and kidnap him til the brass agrees to fire him and unretire his number (you don't ruin a team that you truly love the way he has...)!!!
I see the point about the declining cap number diminishing the hopes of moving Curry.
ReplyDeleteI still have hope if only because some knucklehead took Zack Randolph off our hands a week after we documented that he had a pulse. To me, that means someone could get desperate again.
Great point about Ariza!
By the way, Curry training in "Ocean City, NJ" which is what NY newspapers reported could be code for a couple of things things:
ReplyDeleteCurry and trainer will do a half hour of running on the beach and requisite Rocky-Apollo Creed man hug followed by:
pizza, funnel cake, french fries, custard and cheesesteaks on the Ocean City boardwalk or
booze, gambling and strippers in Atlantic City which is a 20 minute drive away.
Ha, hilarious! That's probably the hardest he has ever worked, so he has to reward himself, right?!
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